This 27-year-old neuroscience major and former school teacher will no doubt elicit comparisons with fellow Canadian Kathleen Edwards, not least due to the sharing of producer Dave Draves and guitarist/mentor Jim Bryson. But Maki is softer and sweeter, with a faint copper tang. There’s something disarming about her gently fluttering country-folk delivery, more akin to Sarah Harmer or Shelly (Blue Ridge Reveille) Campbell. Bryson’s fretwork and Fred Guignon’s lap-steel cushion her in pastel-subtle shades throughout, but she cuts loose with the chicken scratch of “Out Back” and the wildly plucked “Many Thanks” Details at www.katemaki.com
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